The Heat Shield (0.625m) is a part introduced in version 1.2. It costs 150 Funds and contains 50 ablator. It weighs 0.025 tons and has a maximum temperature of 3,300 Kelvin. It also has an impact tolerance of 9 m/s. This is one of the first heat shields, the other being Heat Shield (1.25m), you receive in the tech tree. This shield is great for small probes aerobraking, or, for example, small ore sample return probes.